日志
- 分享 卡斯帕罗夫谈国际象棋和AI
- 刚看到一篇对卡斯帕罗夫的采访。里面有一部分是关于国际象棋和AI。我读了以后觉得很有意思，摘抄一下。 COWEN : Now, given this, does this mean even very, very good chess engines will never play games as beautiful as human beings? Because you were so excited by this combination, in some ways, ...
- 分享 人工智能创作电影剧本创作小说
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去年AlphaGo战胜李世石的时候，我觉得人工智能能写通俗小说的这一天还比较遥远，现在看来已经近在眼前了。现在我觉得未来5年之内应该就能训练出能写学术论文的人工智能。不能被机器取代的工作不会剩下多少了。 Coming to the Multiplex: Movies Written by Machines https://www.bloomberg.com/view/a ...
- 分享 画家小布什
- George W. Bush’s portraits of Sgts. Daniel Casara, left, and Leslie Zimmerman in “Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/opinion/w-and-the-art-of-redemption.html?smprod=nytcore-ipadsmid=nytcore-ipad-share_r ...
- 分享 [ZT]Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v Wade
- Obituary: Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v Wade http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21717339-jane-roe-roe-v-wade-was-69-obituary-norma-mccorvey-jane-roe-roe-v-wade SOMETIMES she just couldn’t settle at anything. At ten she ran away from home to stay with a gir ...
- 分享 [ZT]Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106
- Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movies/tyrus-wong-dies-bambi-disney.html?_r=0 When Walt Disney’s “Bambi” opened in 1942, critics praised its spare, haunting visual style, vastly different from anything Dis ...
- 分享 [ZT]Why all the love for the Chicago Cubs’ woes?
- 棒球季后赛很快就要开打了。Chicago Cubs是美国职业体育里乃至美国文化里futility的象征。上一次赢得世界大赛总冠军是1908年，上一次打进决赛是1945年。但今年常规赛他们却取得了全联盟最好的成绩，按照有些指标甚至可以说是有史以来最好的球队之一。George Will是美国有名的保守派政治评论家，我经常读他在华盛顿邮报的专 ...
- 分享 [ZT] How to be a competitive eater
- How to be a competitive eater: a strong stomach for hot dogs – and stamina Nathan’s famous hot dog eating contest attracts an international list of contestants, two competitive eaters explain their training processes http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/04/nathans-famous-hot ...
- 分享 [ZT]Here’s What Happened When Some Dude Ate Like The Rock For A Month
- Here’s What Happened When Some Dude Ate Like The Rock For A Month By WALT HICKEY http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-diet/ Mark Webster saw the most ludicrous diet plan on the planet and decided to try it out. As I wrote last year, the movie s ...
- 分享 Donald Trump 语录
- 刚看到一篇文章，收录了Trump历年的一些语录。下面摘抄几条我觉得最有意思的。 （原文在这里 http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trumps-craziest-quotes-the-2016-presidential-hopeful-speaks-201568 ） “I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I ...
- 分享 Harper Lee去世
- 刚看到Harper Lee去世的消息。觉得有点伤感。To Kill a Mocking Bird，我最早看的是电影，那时我刚出国不久，英语还不算很好，有些地方不是很听得懂，不觉得有多么了不起。几年前读了小说原著，改变了看法，觉得是我读过的最让我感动的书之一。小说的主题当然是关于种族关系问题。但开头的那几章对童年时期天真烂漫的描写， ...